Category: Observation

(bullet shots…) The Mahatma is no more! The evening has been silenced! Nation standstill bewildered dumbfounded! हैराम!🙏 Irony that it was NathuRam (Godse or God’s sake) who fired the shots! (of course GandhiJi didn’t know or did he that it was Nathuram (did he meet/know him before?) so he uttered Hai Ram! Nope, it’s culture we say Ram Ram Satya Hai, Ram Bhajans did he listen to more or Vaishav bhajans or gaan? He just remembered the Lord ShriRam! But it has been mystery/mystified(!?) who killed GandhiJi! When someone says Gandhi, it has been implicitly referred to the Mahatma/Bapu or his lineage/legacy! not otherwise. though Gandhi surname is not just on him. There’s a whole lot community. महात्मा गांधी पुण्य तिथि। वैष्णव जन तो…

As U would have known by this time, as with FIFA Football 2018 World Cup Russia Quarter-Finals, it’s all going around:

6vs7 on 6/7 & 7/7

Oh Ya! World Cup of Letters & of R to World Cup of Numbers! 6 & 7.

We can even name the Stadium & Street Numbers 6 & 7.

67! Uf! Exception . Uf! It’s 76 on the 6th. Sometimes order matters! Rest are 67 for sure. Let’s see is it2be 67 in the Semi Finals or not… Will URU play its Way through or France advance!? Don’t Miss! U’ll Regret it. All happening in the Month of 7! #URUFRA #BRABEL #SWEENG #RUSCRO

It was my first onsite assignment (software / IT) that too in the USA for the same client I had been working for from offshore India. (Down the Memory Lane… years back)

DEVI: yes, one day, many years back, my American client (point of contact – a male incidentally) called a lady (a few feet away) by her (not so) name “DEVI” (‘TheyVii‘ / ‘TheyVee‘) but as “DayVi” / “Davi”!

He immediately got it and pronounced it correctly “TheyVii”. And he was so happy and excited that how easy it was to pronounce it! He wondered and exclaimed how nobody told him so easily earlier ever! He was also sad that he had been always calling out the name (effectively the lady) so incorrectly (on a regular basis as both of them were on work interaction constantly). The lady “Devi” also smiled.

I checked sometime back: even the dictionaries – at least online official ones & wikipedia even don’t have that easy pronunciation! (yes some audio available these days of course.)

You can thank me if you would like for this simple & easy but so precious yet invaluable tip! 🙂

note: Incidentally, “Devi” / “Devii” is an Indian (Indian subcontinent!) / Bhaaratiya name meaning “Goddess” / “Mother Goddess”. You can refer to dictionaries/ online / wiki for the meaning alone of course.

disclaimer: I have run “Spelling and Grammar check via word-tool” of this post. Even then pardon for any grammatical/typo!